[maxaf]

We frame hybrid as RTO because hybrid is usually mandatory rather than flexible, and implies having to live in some wretched metro area close to an office. I want to live someplace where offices do not exist, which means hybrid is a non-starter for me.

Mandatory hybrid == RTO, but optional hybrid - a combination of hybrid for those who live near an office and remote for those who don’t - can please both camps without drawing battle lines between them.

[pc86]

IMO hybrid only works when there is a set day to be in the office for everyone. Otherwise you are just going into the office to have zoom/teams meetings with the remote people, and you end up with one of two things:

1. Everyone taking calls from their cubicles

2. Remote people calling in individually, onsite people calling in with 5-10+ people on one screen in a conference room.

Both are horrible and fully remote is better than this for basically everything except team-specific stuff (e.g. sales onsite, execs onsite, software remote, that sort of thing). But if you're going off of numbers alone, hybrid makes the most sense and I don't think hybrid makes sense just being an optional free-for-all.

Everyone's circumstances are different so you can't come up with a policy that everyone will like.